The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-23
eIl-L NYg TO HIS SON,
He Relates His Experience I'm the Chicken
Industry.

mother and me. We are neither OF US real
we'll and vet suppose we are as well as folks
at our time of life could expect TO be- your
mother has& good deal Of pain in her side al
the while and I am off my feed more or less
in the morning. Doc has fixed me up some
condition powders that he says VIII stra1ghteT
ma out right away. Perhaps So Doc has
Strengthened ost a good many people in his
time 1 wish had as many dollars as he hat
Strengthened out people.
Most every spring I've had to take little
dandelion root, limbered up with gin, bul
this year that didn't seem TO get there, as the
hovs saw. fixed I'D a dost of it and took II
day and night for a week till wore that old
dardelion root clear down TO skin ana DoneI
but in ten days my appetite was worse than
ever and had a head on me like a 2-year-old
colt. DandeIion root never served me thai
wav before and your mother thinks that the
goodness is all out of it, may be- It's the
same old dandelion root that I've been using
for twenty years, and 1 believe when you've
5ried thing and proved its good, you orUeh'
to change off.
tried to get your mother to take dose OF
it last week for the pain in her side FIXED
I'D a two-quart jug OF it for her, but she cant
bear the smell of gin, so had TO take II my
self DandeliOn is great pur1fler OF Cne
blood. Henry Some days after have been
I feel as if my blood vas pretty near pure
enough. feel like new man.
You know | wrote you last winter, Henry
that I was going to buy some new-fangieG
hens in the spring and go into the egg busl-
ness. Well. sent east in March for couple
of fowls. one of each sect. They came at 50
Der pair over and above railroad charges
which was some S435 more on top OF that.
I thought that as soon as the hen got here
81 zfE 4 rrrr1 Tod che
would proceed to lay some of these here high
priced eggs which we read of in The Poultry
keepers Guide and American Eggist But
she seemed p7nsive, and when L tried TO get
acquainted with her she would cluck IN a
croupy tone of voice and go away
The rooster was no doubt a fine-loOkIng
brute when he was shipped. but when he got
here he strolled around with a preOccupled
air and seemed to feel above us. he was a
poker-dOt rooster, with gray name ana tail,
and he was no doubt refined but l did not
think he should feel above his business, for
we are only plain people, who are accustomed
TO the self-made American hen He seemed
bored all the time and I could see by the
yyay he acted that he pinned to be back in Ere
mont o. having his picture taken for Inc
Poultry Keepers Guide and American Egg
ist. He still yearned for appreciation. lie
was used to being much made OF, as your
mother says, and it gali1t him to enter into
our plain humdrum home life.
I never saw such naughty rooster in my
life. Actually when l went out to feed him
in the morning he would give me cold, ar
rogant look that hurt my feelings. [ know
Tn not what you would call an educated
man nor a polished man, though claim TO
have a son that rs both of said things, but
hate to have a rooster crow over me because
he has had better advantages and better
breeding than l have. So there was no love
lost between us, as you can see.
Directly noticed that the hen began to
have spells of vertigo. She would be stand
ing in a corner of the hen retreat, reverting
to her JOYOUS childhood at Fremont, o., when
all at once she would "falI senseless on the
earth and there lie prone upon the sward-"
She you'd remain in this cOmytoes condition
for between five minutes, perhaps. Then she
would rally little, slowly pry open her large,
mournful eyes and seem to murmur, "Where
am I!o
[ could see that she was evading the egg
issue in every way and ignoring the great OBJ
ject for which she was created. With the
ability to lay eggs worth from 81 to S5.75 per
dozen delivered on the cars, [ could plainly
see that she proposed to roll up this great tai
ent in napkin and play the invalid act.
do |ot disguise the fact, Henry that ] was
mad 1 made a large rectangular affidavit
in the inner temple of the horse barn that
this po6er-dot hen should never live to say
that had sent her to the seashOre for her
health when she was eninently fitted by ma
ture to please the public with her lay.
therefore gave her two weeks to decide on
whether she would contribute a few of her
meritOrious articles OF insert herself into
chicken pie.
She still continued naughty to the last
IA z
fore treated ourselves TO 50 dinner in April.
l then got some expensive eggs fSom the
effete east They were not robust eggs.
They were Iayed during a time of great de
preston, judge. | do not say that the eggs
were bad, but 1 say that their instincts and
their inner life wasn't what they ought to
have been.
In early May 1 bought one of those inlzy-
baters that does the work of ten setting hens
hoped to head off the hen so far as possible,
simply purchasing her literary efforts and
editing them to suit myself. cannot endure
the society of a low-bred hen, and a refined
hen seems to look down on me, and so
though if I could get one of these ottymatic
inkybaters l could have the whole process
under my own control, and if the blooded
hens wanted to go to the sanitarium and sit
around there with their hands in their
pockets while the great hungry world of
traffic clamored for more spring chickens
fried in butter, they might do SO and be dog
goned.
There7pon I bought one of the medium
size, two-stOry hatchers, and loaded it with
eggs. In my dreams I could see a long pro-
cession of fuzzy little chickens marching out
of my little inkybater, arm in arm, every day
or two. was dreaming one of these dreams
night before last, at midnight's holy hour,
when 1 was rudely awakened by'a gallon of
cold water in one of my ears. I arose in the
darkness and received a squirt of cold water
through the window from our ever watchful
and courageous fire department. I opened
the easement for the purpose of thanking
them for this little demonstration, wholly I'M
solicited on my part, when 1 discovered the
hennery was in flames. l went down to assist
the department. We saved the other build
ings, but the hatchery is mass of smoldering
ruins. So am I. 1t seems that the kerosene
lamp which kept burning in the inkybater
for the purpose of maintaining an even tenn
perature, and also for the purpose of showing
the chickens the way to the elevator in case
they should hatch out in the night had
torched up and ignited the hatchery, so to
speak.
see by my paper that we are importing